Fluff Friday 34

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1,091 comments:

What would I do? I would donate them to my local shelter or crisis pregnancy center. I figure they've already been made so it would be dumb to waste them, but unless they are 7th Generation (which we have to use at church, no cloth) I won't be keeping them!

If I won 500 disposable diapers I would take them to our local pregnancy crisis center. I know that those women can use them and since they were free and already made there is no reason for them to go unused!

Wow Im The first to leave a comment!!! Well I know that having a baby is very costly so i would be donating half of them to the food bank/womens shelter and half of them to our Health Unit to hand out to families that are in real need. I use cloth and i think even clothdiapers should be introduced to everyone. Even with the cost of the cloth diapers it still doesnt add up to what a family is going to spend on diapers in the long run. I have had 4 kids so i know how tight things can be when you need diapers and groceries etc.

If someone left me 500 disposable diapers as a gift I would take them everywhere to try to exchange them. Hopefully I could get store credit and use the extra money I may have to buy a few cloth diapers and give to lower income people at my church. They helped me with my baby girl alot.

If I were to receive 500 (WOW!) disposable dipes on my doorstep? This is sticky… realistically, we don't want anyone to use 'sposies, right? If there's no way to have them recycled or exchanged for cash to buy cloth diapers then I would take them to a local mother's support center, WIC or women & children's center and donate them.

In all honesty, I'm sure I'd use a good bit of them. I'm only about to start the cloth journey (which winning this would certainly help with–hint hint!). That does seem like a lot, though, so I'd probably donate some to Jessie's Place, a local women & children shelter.

If I found 500 disposable diapers at my doorway, I would bring them to the food pantry so if a family who was stopping in for food also needed diapers, they would have them.

Now if I found 500 cloth diapers, I would make a great stash for my house and my cousins. I would then put the remaining diapers together in sets of 25 or 30. On a bright Saturday morning, I would stand near the farmer's market and give out the sets to parents who might be interested in trying cloth diapers and being green.

I'm with Jenney, they have already been made, so I would give them to the pediatric hospital where I used to work. It is very hard to cloth diaper for these families while spending months living in a hospital setting.

What would I do? I'd give them to our local Ministerial Alliance for the young Mama's who come in all the time for diapers.. 🙂 And I agree with Jenney. It would be bad to just waste them.. better someone who could use them to use them.

If someone left me 500 diapers, I would take what I could use and donate the rest. I still use sposie's overnight and on outings b/c I mostly use prefolds and they don't hold up well for my dd overnight or for long periods of time..

500 diapers on my doorstep… well my husband and I are expecting our first, and though we have decided to go with cloth – I always wanted to – I would probably keep some to have on hand.The rest I would give to friends who weren't using cloth, though many of my friends have now decided to go with cloth so I might have to give them to someone in need instead!

I would probably give them to my sister, because no matter how much I urge her to switch over to cloth she won't because,"I don't have the time with a 5 year old autistic child and a 3 and 1 1/2 year old." At least it would save her on some money instead of wasting them.

If I was given 500 disposables I would keep a few to use while vacationing. We are going hiking this summer and won't have access to a washer and limited space in our packs.The rest I would give to our church to help the womens shelter. I already give them the formula samples that arrive on my doorstep. 🙂

As much as I love cloth diapers and feel they are the best diapering option (even preferable to gDiapers), I support moms and dads who use disposables. I would keep some of the disposables (10? 50?) for road trips and staying with family members who can't facilitate our diaper washing. I would keep several to give as baby shower presents and to my fifty or so baby-toting friends! This would let me pool my moolah to buy cloth diaper gifts for my dear and interested friends!

Omg! I love this weeks topic, it made me laugh! My first thought would be I don't wish these on any baby and then I'd probably give them to my SIL or best friend….they have never seemed interested at all in trying cloth. =

If my DH saw them he'd probably try and hide them for himself. He's always liked disposables over cloth for whatever reason!

I would try and get other cloth mamas and companies that sell cloth diapers to chip in on getting them shipped to the nearest location that Knowaste LLC would take them and recycle them. The cost of shipping would be worth the saving of garbage landfill pile up. http://www.knowaste.com/us/default.php

what would I do? I'd keep some for nighttime use (we have yet to find a good cloth solution for my heavy wetter, ugh!) and give the rest to my bff who has a DS just a few weeks older than my DD. I've tried to convert her; it hasn't worked, lol.

It is so funny how much 500 diapers sounds like until you sit down and figure out how fast those would go! With my twin boys we would go through anywhere from 16 to 20 per day so that would last us approximately….4 weeks (If we were using sposies full time). I have to say we still use disposables for trips, church etc. Also one of my sons has severe excema and we have to use a prescription medication that cannot be used with cloth….so I would probably keep them.

If I had 500 diapers show up on my doorstep I would definitely donate them to our local service center. The center helps people in our town and they are always in need of diapers. There are times they are out and with 500 diapers they could help so many people.

If I received that many disposable diapers, I would be shocked! Then I would find a place or places to donate them to. My son is allergic to disposable diapers so they would do us no good. So giving them to people in need would be the best.

I would keep a small stash on hand for "just in case"… For instance I'd put some in a tote that I'm starting for evacutation situations, or if I have to strip all of my dipes I'd use sposies while stripping CDs.

The rest I'd give to a pregnant mama that I know who is in need. she's NOT open to CDing, so I've been giving her all the sposie coupons you get mailed to you during pregnancy.

What would I do? I would donate them to the local Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as they have to use disposable and go through so many or to one of the many progams my city has for mothers who need help. There is nothing wrong with using disposable as I did use them. But why not make the earth cleaner by becoming a cloth fan.

My mother nearly did this and sent just under 250 NB Seventh Generation diapers when our little girl was born (she was hoping to do a diaper service but we don't have any in the area). We used them of course!

I'd like to say I'd give them away or make something creative and hilarious with them, but since my newborn is currently going through about 100 diapers a day (seems like!), I might use them in addition to my cloth… hopefully they'd be 7th Generation so that wouldn't be too bad.

There are some 3rd world countries that have orphanages so desperate for diapers, they actually wash out and reuse disposable diapers. To me, that is somebody in need. It would be much better if they had cloth, but I really think they would appreciate any donation. That's where I would send them.

I would use them. I just had a baby and although I want to use cloth diapers, I have none so far. I was given disposables that we are using right now. Now if you wanna drop some cloth on my doorstep, that's an entirely different story! 🙂

500 disposables? 300 or so are going to some local Military mommas. 100 would go to the local church. the last 100? They'd be dissected by my family and local school kids… "kids, parents don't let they're kids grow up to use disposables… and THIS is why."

Hmmm… I would keep some for my stash that I send with my kids when they go to any other family member's house since they are 'not comfortable' with having to use a cloth diaper. Didn't they all grow up with cloth diapers??? LOL And then I would give to my friends with little ones and donate the rest to my church.

Saturday's entry:I would love to go back and visit the Shriner's Children's Hospital in Greenville, SC and donate the diapers there. I have some great memories from when I was studying to be a registered nurse. Such a beautiful place, wonderful staff and AMAZING kids!

If I had 500 cloth dipes left on my door step: I would give a stash to my sister-in-law who is about to have a her first, a surprise, while her husband is in full-time school. And a stash to my best friend who is about to stay home with her 2 in dipes, her hubby is a teacher. And the rest to a crisis pregnancy center….maybe I'd swipe a couple to extend my wash days! 🙂

I think I'd have to donate them. I've been using some disposables my brother gave us lately and I really miss my cloth. So, I could keep using my cloth and donate the 'sposies to some ladies who could really use them!

I have several friends who have lost their jobs within the last year. I would give them the disposables. I'd also keep a few for back-ups, and some for baby shower diaper cakes & wreaths! Or maybe the diapers came with a gift receipt and I could return them and buy more cloth diapers! 🙂

Well, I'm from Alaska (I live in vegas now) and there are a lot of very poor families out in the bush and up in the villages. A lot of Alaskan Native mothers out in the remote villages have next to nothing for their kids and as much as I would love to convert the world to cloth, I would donate those diapers to them. It's hard enough to get into town to buy diapers and supplies when your paying hundreds of dollars of fuel for your snowmobile or the one good working vehicle in the village. Plus most families recycle and burn their paper/plastics in their wood stoves and incinerators out there in the villages so they wouldn't end up in a land fill.

Hmmm, I am embarrassed to say, I'd keep some for when my baby has to be cared for while I work. Still haven't figured out arrangements, and the daycares I looked into won't use cloth. Neither will my MIL! The majority of the diapers I would donate to someone in need. We have a free classifieds site on the local news website and there are always postings begging for help because someone is expecting a baby and lost their job. I'd want to check them out and make sure it was legit somehow, because I'd want to give them to someone who REALLY was in need. Of course, it is funny how specific those ads are… please give me this, but in this color, and 'sposies, NOT cloth blah blah, and a stroller, but it MUST be a jogger. Sometimes it annoys me, because I'm a bad person I guess! But beggers shouldn't be picky, right?

I would give them friends or family members. I am the only one by far willing to use cloth diapers. I don't hate disposables, I used them on my first child, I just think it is time for me to do my part for the environment, and save a little extra on the side, plus cloth is soooo much cuter.

I would either return the diapers for store credit to buy something I actually need for our little one coming in December or I would give them to one of my friends who would use them. I believe that cloth diapers are safer and healthier.

I actually don't have any idea what I'd do if I saw such a mountain of disposable diapers… shriek and run away? :0) Probably better to donate them to one of the groups in town that supports moms in need.

I would donate the diapers to our local children & youth agency. They frequently get babies born into low income families with drug addiction, etc., and family members step up to help care for them. If I did not donate them to there, the other option would be our domestic violence shelter which is always in need or check with our local Children's Hospital because many terminally or chronically ill babies/toddlers are there that have enough medical bills when discharged as is that diapers would be a great present. I would have to include information on cloth diapers though, bc I am that much in love with them!!

Wow! what an interesting question! I would probably keep a few of them in case my child ever had a bad infection and then, like many other commenters, just donate the rest to local charities for women and children.

I am expecting my first child, and though I have bought many cloth diaper in newborn size to try, I will still need disposable before I choose my favourite cloth diaper! So, I would probably keep some if it's newborn size!

I'm expecting my first baby so I'd probably keep enough to get me through the first few weeks before I transition to cloth. Then I would give them to the hospital or a woman's shelter that could really benefit from them.

Facebook fan!Well i would be happy as i am struggling financially right now. I am slowly buying cloth diapers every time i get money, but don't have enough to even get me through one day! So i would keep them or i may even post an ad on kijiji to see if someone would be willing to trade their cloth diapers for the disposables.Bethany

I would probably keep them. Our family goes out of town a good bit due to my husbands job. So I use sposies for our little one while we're gone. I have yet to learn the art of cloth diapers on the road 🙂

I would do the same thing that I did with all of our disposable diapers when we made the switch to cloth: donate them. we have a local battered women and children's shelter that most of our grown clothes go to.

I don't think I'd keep any of them. I really don't like disposable! We are staying with my parents this week and my mom asked me to bring disposable, every time I put one on my son I think of how uncomfortable it looks!

Hmmm… I suppose if 500 sposies were dropped on my doorstep, I'd take a few for myself for travelling and then divide the rest between my sister and sister-in-law (both already using sposies). I'd probably make them into diapercakes so no one would know I was regifting. 🙂

Monday's entry: I'd use a few of them in cloth diaper/disposable comparisons when trying to convert my friends. If they could feel the difference between the softness of cloth and the stiffness of sposies, maybe it would help them make the switch!

The disposables I would so give to someone who needed them bc I am soo in love with cloth. I would have to educate them on cloth though and where to get them, so that they could save up their money while using the disposables to get their own stash of fluff 🙂

I have to be honest. If I won 500 disposable diapers I would keep some for a rainy day (when I was sick or just behind on laundry for some reason). I would give my missionary friend as many as she thought she could use. She uses cloth at home, but often uses sposies when they go places. She is expecting again, so she will probably do some sposies during the transition from 3 to 4 kids. The rest I would donate.

I used the disposables that my coworkers brought our newborn (for the first couple weeks). But we so much prefer and love cloth diapers that I would never imagine using 500 disposies again. We put our firstborn in cloth when she was 5 months old, and I never regretted it…just wished I'd done it sooner. Now with our second baby, I was willing to use disposies during the first week or so because they were given to us as gifts…but beyond that, I'd say return the diapers to the store for refund or donate them to a pregnancy care center. In just the couple weeks of using up the gifted disposies on our newborn recently, I am reminded of all the things I didn't like about disposies…

Today I've been throwing out Huggies coupons that have been cluttering my mailbox. This inclines me to throw out the disposable diapers–at least to the tree lawn, where someone who wants them can take them.

I was also thinking that I could make them into cute little diaper cakes and then donate them to the local pregnancy crisis center. I'm sure those mamas would enjoy a little celebration for their babe! I could even donate a new cloth diaper and put it in the cake with directions. 🙂

I would be very grateful, but now that I LOVE cloth diapering, I would probably donate them to the Plumas County Crisis Center for those in more need than myself. I know that they would probably go to families that have lost their jobs at the Quincy Mill, so that would make me very satisfied with my donation.

I would see if they were diapers that my cousin, who is due in November would like to have. After checking with her I would donate the remainder of the diapers to a childcare center or another facility that could use them.

I have your button…also on my comment before…I some how missed that there were 500 diapers. I don't think I would need 500 diapers to diaper my soon to be three children. I guess I would use some of them for my three kids, but I would probably donate a lot of them to either the local crisis pregnancy center and possibly give some to friends.

Daily comment: I was excited to see that there are recycling centers for diapers, but if someone is going to use disposables anyways I'd rather just let them use them rather than have them go to waste.

Wow! That's a really tough one! I would probably use some of them until my newborn was ready for cloth. (I'm assuming they are small enough!) and I would give the rest of them to my sister and brother. They both had babies this summer and haven't made the conversion to cloth.

Donating is awesome. But if I was donating actual diapers, I'd rather share the cloth love. So I think I'd take them to WalMart and return them. Then the money from those diapers could be broken up into smaller gift cards or used to buy children's clothing that can go to a Women's Shelter.

Well, I'm from Alaska (I live in vegas now) and there are a lot of very poor families out in the bush and up in the villages. A lot of Alaskan Native mothers out in the remote villages have next to nothing for their kids and as much as I would love to convert the world to cloth, I would donate those diapers to them. It's hard enough to get into town to buy diapers and supplies when your paying hundreds of dollars of fuel for your snowmobile or the one good working vehicle in the village. Plus most families recycle and burn their paper/plastics in their wood stoves and incinerators out there in the villages so they wouldn't end up in a land fill.

There is a local charity that partners with many agencies to provide clothes, books, toys, diapers, baby furniture, and wipes called Northwest Children's Outreach. They service kids from birth to age 18 and I would donate the diapers there.